Seminar on The ageing brain

Invitation to seminar on
The ageing brain

Dear Colleague,

Oslo Neuroscience Network invites to a meeting on "The ageing brain" in
"Nye Auditorium 13", Domus Medica on Monday August 24 2009 at 16-18.

We are pleased that "stortingsrepresentant" Jan Bøhler (A) will come to join the meeting. He is particularly interested in a national quality registry for neurological disorders.

Program:

Professor Jon Storm-Mathisen, Dept of Anatomy and the CMBN:
Short information about Nansen Neuroscience Network

Stortingsrepresentant Jan Bøhler (A):
Politikernes forventninger til forskning som kan fremme eldres hjernehelse

Dr. Tormod Fladby, Dept Neurology, Akershus University Hospital:
"Biomarkers in diagnosis, and potential for early treatment of
cognitive loss and dementia"

Short break with refreshments

Professor Ivar Reinvang, Center for study of human cognition,
Dept of Psychology:
"Brain ageing  - consequences for cognitive function"

Professor Arne Klungland, Institute of Medical Microbiology and the
CMBN, Rikshospitalet:
"DNA repair: role in brain ageing and neurodegeneration"

For practical reasons we would like to know if you will attend the meeting. Please send a mail to Maria Beatriz Azevedo Castro Rocha <m.b.a.c.d.rocha@medisin.uio.no> no later that August 21.

Please forward this invitation to colleagues who might be interested in the meeting as we do not have a complete list of mailing addresses.

You are all most welcome!

kind regards

Vidar Gundersen
Leader Oslo Neuroscience Network